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arte astratta e concreta. The exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan was organised by Huber along with Max Bill and the architects Lanfranco Bombellii Tiravanti, Elena Berrone and Franca Helg. Huber exhibited at the exhibition along with Kandinsky, Arp, Klee, Bill with other exhibitors shown on the poster.
Max Huber
Sirenella. Experimental poster for the Palais de Cristal Dance hall. Visualization of rhythms using shapes and over printing.
Max Huber
Winter Sales reference plate 7 E. McKnight Kauffer a Designer and His Public
E.McKnight Kauffer
Amongst Matter's finest photomontages rare.
Herbert Matter
For the 1931 Art Exhibition in Switzerland Kulagina shows the USSR in construction. Kulagina met her future husband Gustav Klutsis a teacher at Vkhutemas when she enrolled as a student. The school was conceived explicitly as 'a specialized educational institution for advanced artistic and technical training, created to train highly qualified master artists for industry. It was a centre for three major movements in avant garde art and architecture: constructivism, rationalism, and suprematism. Kulagina and Klutsis worked closely together on photomontages she also did exceptional posters incorporating photography such as the International Women Workers Day and Women Workers Strenghen the Shock Brigades. ref: Margadant 57 Kunst and Propaganda 87 Klutsis/Kulagina 139
Valentina Kulagina
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Pelican Ink - an exceptionally rare work, one of only three known, relating to Lissitzky's
Lissitzky
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On the Life of the German Proletariat German Workers and our worker peasants union for peace and work. An exceptionally rare and early Russian poster showing the leaders of the German Communist party Klara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Herman Brandler. There are two items by George Gross shown in the poster and one possibly by Pechstein and another by Kollowitz. c1918/19
unknown
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Allianz poster for the Association of Modern Swiss Artists
Max Bill
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Bureau
Theo Ballmer
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Paul Poiret in Wien
Rosenbaum
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Winter in Davos
Burkhard Mangold
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Triplex
A.M.Cassandre
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Lenin's Young Guard an extremely early photomontage with photo's from 1920 and poster c1920-23 shows Lenin and Trotsky
Nekrayen and Luppili
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pevsner vantongerloo bill - linocut
max bill
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Join Our Struggle Vote Communist List 4 Because of the nature of Heartfield's work vehemently criticising the National Socialist Party and Hitler, possession of it became very dangerous and very few examples have survived. Born Helmut Herzfield in Berlin in 1891, he changed his name to John Heartfield in 1916 as a criticism of the anti- British sentiment in Germany during the first World War. Together with George Grosz he was a member of the Berlin Dada group and the German Communist party. During the First World War Heartfield contributed work to Die Neue Jugend, an arts journal published by his brother Wieland Herzefelde. During this period Heartfield together with George Grosz claimed to have invented photomontage as indeed did Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch. He went on to do some powerful satirical work for AIZ with savage and humorous attacks on Hitler and the National Socialists. So strong were his photomontages he had to flee Germany escaping arrest by the Gestapo in 1933 and relocated to Prague where he continued work for AIZ now located there. In 1937 Germany threatened to break off relations with Czechoslovakia unless an exhibition of Heartfield's photomontage was closed down. He was stripped of his German nationality and escaped to London where he remained until 1950 before returning to East Germany where he became a professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1960. He died in Berlin in 1968..
John Heartfield
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1st. Grand Premio Bergamo a 1958 poster by Max Huber for a festival of art films and films about art,
Max Huber
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Zoologischer Garten reference DFP 111 1408 Hohlwein Stutgart 68
Ludwig Hohlwein
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An exceptionally rare poster from Schwitters who is best known for his Merz collages. One other known copy see catalogue raisonne of Schwitters typographical work no. 99
kurt schwitters
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Theo Ballmer studied at the bauhaus before returning to Basel to teach at the Basel Arts and Crafts School where he remained for some 30 years Reference The 20th Century Poster Merrill Berman collection page 150. The Modern Poster MOMA page 126
Theo Ballmer
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usa baut. Poster for an exhibition of modern American architecture by ex bauhaus student Max Bill. Bill's many talents had him excel in painting, sculpture, teaching, architecture, and is thought of as Switzerland's finest designer ref: History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann Swiss graphic design by Richard Hollis Cold war modern design Victoria and Albert exhibition
Max Bill
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Zeitprobleme- Problems of our time in Swiss painting and sculpture exhibition. reference Swiss Graphic Design Richard Hollis The History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann The Swiss poster by Margadant
Max Bil
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First sketch for Kauffer's 1937 poster Post During Lunch Hour 1937. The design is in pencil, black ink and gouache and is inscribed by Kauffer
E. McKnight Kauffer
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Etoile Du Nord. One of Cassandre's finest designs in backed on linen. Reference: A.M. Cassandre by Henri Mouron plate 11- The Modern Poster. Museum of Modern Art page 150- Posters Design of the Avant-Garde collection Merrill Berman page 158
A.M. Cassandre
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5 Fingers has the Hand. Heartfield's most famous poster. Because of the nature of Heartfield's work vehemently criticising the National Socialist Party and Hitler, possession of it became very dangerous and very few examples have survived. Born Helmut Herzfield in Berlin in 1891, he changed his name to John Heartfield in 1916 as a criticism of the anti- British sentiment in Germany during the first World War. Together with George Grosz he was a member of the Berlin Dada group and the German Communist party. During the First World War Heartfield contributed work to Die Neue Jugend, an arts journal published by his brother Wieland Herzefelde. During this period Heartfield together with George Grosz claimed to have invented photomontage as indeed did Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch. He went on to do some powerful satirical work for AIZ with savage and humorous attacks on Hitler and the National Socialists. So strong were his photomontages he had to flee Germany escaping arrest by the Gestapo in 1933 and relocated to Prague where he continued work for AIZ now located there. In 1937 Germany threatened to break off relations with Czechoslovakia unless an exhibition of Heartfield's photomontage was closed down. He was stripped of his German nationality and escaped to London where he remained until 1950 before returning to East Germany where he became a professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1960. He died in Berlin in 1968..
John Heartfield
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Konkrete Kunst an important exhibition including works by Arp. Bill, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian, Vantongerloo. Bill was very busy promoting the
Max Bill
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Brasilien Baut-Brazil Builds a poster by the Brasilian artist Matia Viera for an exhibition of architecture,prints and Viera's sculpture. Reference: History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann page 190. Swiss Graphic Design by Richard Hollis page 174
Maria Viera
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Bal DE La Couture One of the finest Deco images of the 20's advertising a fashion ball at the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees. Reference Timeless Images 127 Art Deco page 620
George Lepape
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Meta
Niklaus Stoecklin
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The new Earls Court Exhibition Centre designed by the American architect C.Howard Crane opened in 1937 amongst the first events was the Motor Show for which Kauffer produced this rare photomontage. reference; E. Mcknight Kauffer a designer and his public by Mark Haworth-Booth plate 53
E. McKnight Kauffer
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A travelling exhibition of the Deutschen Werkbundes by the ex bauhaus student Theo Ballmer who went on to teach at the Basel Arts and Crafts school where he remained for some 30 years. Reference The 20th Century Poster Merrill Berman collection page 150. The Modern Poster MOMA page 126
Theo Ballmer
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160 Million in the East March Joyfully into the Future. Because of the nature of Heartfield's work vehemently criticising the National Socialist Party and Hitler, possession of it became very dangerous and very few examples have survived. Born Helmut Herzfield in Berlin in 1891, he changed his name to John Heartfield in 1916 as a criticism of the anti- British sentiment in Germany during the first World War. Together with George Grosz he was a member of the Berlin Dada group and the German Communist party. During the First World War Heartfield contributed work to Die Neue Jugend, an arts journal published by his brother Wieland Herzefelde. During this period Heartfield together with George Grosz claimed to have invented photomontage as indeed did Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch. He went on to do some powerful satirical work for AIZ with savage and humorous attacks on Hitler and the National Socialists. So strong were his photomontages he had to flee Germany escaping arrest by the Gestapo in 1933 and relocated to Prague where he continued work for AIZ now located there. In 1937 Germany threatened to break off relations with Czechoslovakia unless an exhibition of Heartfield's photomontage was closed down. He was stripped of his German nationality and escaped to London where he remained until 1950 before returning to East Germany where he became a professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1960. He died in Berlin in 1968..
John Heartfield
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Reference:The 20th-Century Poster. Design of the Avant-Garde page 173. Word and Image page 84
J.S. Anderson
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Reference Graphic Design/Mechanical Age page 109
E. McKnight Kauffer
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Unsere Wohnung
Richard Lohse
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Swiss Alps Calling by Aesbach with photo by W. Luthy
Hans Aesbach
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Manoli
Lucian Bernhard
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New Statendam
A.M.Cassandre
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